I’ll be on vacation until November 5th. Contact of any kind will be delayed until I return. Comments on the support site and this site will be disabled in the mean time as I will not be here to monitor for spam, etc.

I’ll try and clear out the inbox before I go, though…

The local “Stump the Experts” is still going with only eight winners so far. There’s a few more coupons left if you know the answer to the previously-posted trivia question.

It’s kind of sad, but this site is becoming more and more static as more and more things take up my life. As such, I did what I should’ve a while ago and put up a products page for the “codepoetry” brand and then put the blog on its own page (surprisingly easy with Drupal).

And now that Notae 1.0 is out, watch me blog more.

Anyhow, I have over a thousand downloads and not one bit of feedback. What’s up with that? Half of them came from the webpage, too, so I know you’re reading . You like it? Hate it? It’s useless? Come on.

I have a few registrations so far, so thanks. At least I know a few people like it.

I wanted to plug two utilities I use a lot when developing because of the amount of time they save. If you have more, let me know.

Localization Suite

The Localization Suite from Blue Technologies scans your code and your NIBs for strings that can be localized and creates a file readable by its Localizer program so that it can be localized. When the translation is run back through the manager, a NIB in that language is created as well as a strings file for your code.

Accessorizer

I can’t praise Accessorizer enough. Just go look at it and you’ll see why. When you’re making a class, use this. The code is perfect and it gets you started with KVC/KVO and Undo Manager support on your object.

Due to waking up to 500 comment spams, comments are for registered users only. If you’ve ever registered at a Drupal site before, use the format “user@www.thatserver.com” and it will use your account from there. If not, all you need are a pair of eyes and a valid email address and you’re in. No big form of information.

Sorry, but deleting that many comments sucks in any CMS.

And now we’re up on Drupal.

1. Hacked mt2drupal to support the contributed trackback.module in Drupal 4.5+
2. Hacked mt2drupal to use MT’s calculated archive link for the entry in Drupal’s URL table rather than a self-generated one.
3. Hacked autopath.module to re-create my old-style of archive links for new entries.
4. Cleaned up old converted MG template to make it match CP again; merged some stylesheets in the process.

Missing in action:

• Random quotes.
• Old forum content and users.
• Offtopic blog
• Some static pages (coming along one-by-one).
• MT

If you’re reading this in NewsFire, please go to your preferences and turn your checking speed down from every half second to something reasonable. I use 40 minutes, myself.

Those of us paying for the bandwidth and only updating every few days thank you.

More complete reasoning: this applies to everyone using an RSS reader, but in the past three days I’ve seen a lot of people using NF taking advantage of the “every 5 minutes” option to the point that NF requests now outnumber IE users. NF’s default of 15 minutes should be ok, but my feed doesn’t refresh but once an hour anyway so it’s not worth it to pull faster than that. You can double-click the feed in the sidebar to edit the setting for that feed, by the way.

I finished moving the site from the old NBVH provider to a new VDS provider (for about the same price; always important). Locked it down, built it up (MySQL 4/PHP 5/Apache 2, and screw the warnings), and moved it over. Some changes:

1. The cruft was left out. That means:
   1. Old-style /archives/####.php links have been deleted.
   2. Date and category archives are gone.
2. Now using a better version of MySQL and it shows. Even before removing the other archives the site was an order of magnitude faster.
3. Full shell access means more toys to come, of course.

Since it’s faster, I hope this will mean I’ll get around to posting more tidbits. As for the past few weeks, they were spent doing this, hence the lack of attentiveness.

But my 40GB iPod should be in today, so I think I’ll have an unboxing ceremony soon.

Expect downtime, funny errors, and general commotion.

8/20 At some point in the future when Dotster allows me to change my name servers … damn broken PHP scripts.

8/22 Looks to have worked now.

I’m in “slow-posting-mode” due to various things. I’m currently distracted by:

• Reading books
• Writing a book
• Home videos
  • Learning iMovie
  • Learning iMovie is too weak for me
  • Learning Final Cut Express
• Cleaning out old CDs
• Cleaning out old data on my “crap” hard drive (the 200GB monster I throw files onto to get them off the iBook; I go though them monthly and trash the ones I don’t need to keep)

And so on. Not really reading the web; barely reading email. Kind of feels good.